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TEACHING TOLERANCE LESSON PLANS
Many Shapes and Sizes
This activity for grades preK-2 helps even the youngest of children celebrate size diversity.
Beauty is Skin Deep
This media literacy lesson for grades 6-10 helps students analyze the ways media representations about size and appearance can impact our attitudes and behaviors.
Reshaping Body Image
This upper grades activity helps students dissect the current social norms about physical size and appearance.
Kids Come in All Sizes
This workshop can help middle school girls learn how to place sizism in the context of other forms of discrimination, to challenge the myths and prejudices, and to brainstorm ways to combat size bias.
OTHER LESSON PLANS
Early Grades
Inner Beauty
This unit for grades K-4 promotes inner beauty by exploring issues such as friendship, love, and respect for yourself and other individuals.
Prejudice and Body Image
Students (grades 3-7) explore the ways in which the media affects perceptions of, and feelings towards, body image.
Media Literacy and Body Self-Esteem for Third Graders
This 10-lesson unit introduces students to media literacy and helps them make the connection between media advertising and negative body image. It also promotes body self-esteem and respect for body differences among others, and links misinformation about bodies with prejudice and bullying.
Middle Grades
Mirror Image
Students (grades 5-8) reflect on how they feel about their bodies and explore ways to deal with aspects of their body image they would like to change.
A Media Literacy Unit on "Turn Beauty Inside Out"
Students (grades 5-8) learn the importance of distinguishing between inner and outer beauty, and recognize that the media’s opinion of beauty is biased and should be evaluated rather than just accepted.
Gender Stereotypes and Body Image
Students (grades 6-7) explore the dangers of gender stereotyping and the media’s role in perpetuating gender stereotypes.
Upper Grades
Culture and Obesity
In this lesson for high school students, participants learn how culture influences body perception, explore prejudices toward obese people, and examine their own feelings about their bodies.
Ideal Weight, Cultural Stereotypes, and Eating Disorders
This lesson helps high school students to explore the societal stigma that accompanies people who are overweight. In addition, students research current medical thinking on "ideal weight" and identify how the perception of body image can lead to eating disorders.
Kellogg Special K Ads
Students (grades 9-12) examine the relationship between body image and marketing by exploring the Kellogg's Special K “look good on your own terms” advertising campaign. |
